Bermuda and the Filecoin Foundation began storing the country’s public datasets on Filecoin, with labour publications uploaded first.
Internet Archive supports the work via Democracy’s Library, and over 1 petabyte of public materials is already on the network.
The Government of Bermuda and the Filecoin Foundation have announced a joint initiative to place publicly available government datasets on Filecoin, a decentralized storage network. The effort is being led by the country’s Ministry for the Cabinet Office and Digital Innovation and was announced in Davos, Switzerland.
Notably, the project will increase the resilience, transparency, and verifiability of public records by storing them across a decentralized network of independent storage providers. Public datasets are being prepared for long-term availability so that citizens and researchers can retrieve files and confirm their integrity.
Bermuda’s initial uploads include employment and labour publications that track tre
